Miscellany poems with two plays by Ardelia [manuscript], [ca. 1685-1702].
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Title
Miscellany poems with two plays by Ardelia [manuscript], [ca. 1685-1702].
Description
160 leaves ; 37 x 23 cm
Associated name
Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720, author.
Dobell, P. J., former owner.
Dobell, A. E., former owner.
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906, correspondent.
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.
Creake, Rev., former owner.
Dobell, P. J., former owner.
Dobell, A. E., former owner.
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906, correspondent.
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.
Creake, Rev., former owner.
Scope and content
An autograph collection of the Countess of Winchilsea's poems and plays. The two plays are The triumphs of love and innocence: a tragecomedy and Aristomenes or the royal shepheard a tragedy. The first, the author originally gave the title The queen of Cypresse or love above ambition (erased from the title-page). One of the first poems in the volume is dated 1685; the last is "Upon the Death of King James the Second" (d. 1701). Many pencilled annotations by Sir Edmund Gosse; and an autograph letter of Richard Garnett tipped in.
Note
Poems listed in Folger index of first lines.
Publications about material
Many of the poems, including Aristomenes, were printed in Miscellany poems on several occasions written by a lady (London, 1713). Many of these were reprinted and many of the others printed for the first time (excluding some translations and paraphrases) in Minor poets of the eighteenth century (ed. H. I'A. Fausset, Everyman Lib.). The volume forms the subject of an essay in Sir Edmund Gosse's Gossip in a library (London, 1891). The poems, including those in this manuscript, were collected by Myra Reynolds in The poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea (1903). According to Gosse (op. cit.) the volume is mentioned by Theophilus Cibber as then in the hands of a Rev. Mr. Creake. Gosse obtained it in 1884, its last previous private owner a member of the Creake family. Obtained by H.C. Folger from P.J. and A.E. Dobell, 1929.
Binding information
Original paneled calf sides, rebacked (Folger 1952)
Provenance
Rev. Creake -- P.J. and A.E. Dobell
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Selected image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library MS N.b.3
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N.b.3
Folger accession
cs1947